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The REMAKE/REMODEL meme is one of my favourite things. Artists need a place to show off and Whitechapel should always be It. A handful of entries will be showcased on Bleedingcool at the end of each ...
REMAKE/REMODEL meme is one of my favourite things. Artists need a place to show off and Whitechapel should always be It. A handful of entries will be showcased on Bleedingcool at the end of each challenge.

THE RULES:

This is for ART ONLY. Any pen-portraits, or crappy scribbles padded-out with words, will cause a deployment of the Urethral Attack Maggots. And a banned account.

No stock-photo manipulation. No half-arsed bollocks. Anything deemed to be piss-takery will be nuked from orbit. Original photography is fine.

No more than ONE submission by any one person.

INSTRUCTIONS:

BAKTEREV

This one’s about as mental as it gets, but can be summed-up thus:

MAD! RUSSIAN! SCIENCE!

Bakterev is a nutty scientist created by Pavel Perov for his 1925 pulp novel Bratstvo Viia. I quote the ever-magnificent Jess Nevins:

Bakterev is “a collaborator of the Jewish conspirators who have brought about the Bolshevik Revolution” in Russia--

He is a leader of the Brotherhood of the Vii and has for years been summoning “dead souls” and implanting them into ectoplasm extracted from living humans. The resulting beings are called “mortomats” and are controlled by the Brotherhood’s machines.

There’s more – like how an Irish-American Reporter, a white-cavalry officer and a Cossack servant ultimately bring down the evil Brotherhood in the Baltic Forests after defeating a legion of Mortomat Roman Soldiers – but I think the angle we want here is purer than that: it’s Soviet Political Skulduggery at the hands of Ectoplasmic Soul-Monsters animated by an Insane Bolshevik Scientist. Only on R/R, baby.

Modernise or futurise, my darlings. Hollywood just decided to remake Bratstvo Viia for today’s feckless audience, and you’re part of the concept team.

You have two weeks.

Go.]]>
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349229#Comment_3492292013-02-28T01:52:00-06:002013-02-28T01:52:58-06:00dnewlinghttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558
Now Bakterev is just begging for one of my favourite activities - poking fun at conspiracy theorists....
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349231#Comment_3492312013-02-28T03:09:28-06:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00vandalhandlehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4586
Feb 17th deadline, so we have to create the mad science to hit the deadline
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Oh crap - well spotted. TIME MACHINE: GO.
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349239#Comment_3492392013-02-28T07:01:07-06:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00Paul Sizerhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=44
For as fun as the Pope R/R was, I was too @#$%^ busy to play. @#$%^ "actual paying" work.
I shall endeavor to participate on this one...
I shall endeavor to participate on this one...]]>
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This reminds me of that movie Phantasm for some reason.
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349453#Comment_3494532013-03-03T10:44:36-06:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00Berserkerhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=41
Really wanted to join in on the Pope remake myself, but just had nothing as far as inspiration went. Thought about it for two weeks and got nothing more interesting than Si's description for it - ...
The image for this jumped into my brain halfway through my first scan of the challenge.]]>
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@Berserker. Yes, sometimes it happens - absolutely nothing comes. Other times something pops to mind, and sometimes that happens immediately. That happened with me in the Pope challenge and now it's ...
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Where is everyone? I've never seen an R&R thread so quiet.
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349514#Comment_3495142013-03-04T18:34:01-06:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00Paul Sizerhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=44
Shhh! We're thinking...
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REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349557#Comment_3495572013-03-05T11:07:22-06:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00dnewlinghttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558
@Jackcrowder: nice!
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349563#Comment_3495632013-03-05T12:41:19-06:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00Jack Crowderhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6537
@dnewling; Thank you! It was a lot of fun to tinker about with!
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349571#Comment_3495712013-03-05T13:48:59-06:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00curbhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1334
That's a beauty!
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@curb; I wanted to make the figures static but the environment liquid. I think I accomplished that without it looking odd. Which was a big win for me. I can't wait to see it get blasted out of the ...
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And now I desperately want to read about the adventures of a Pussy Riot superhero team.
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I am so sorry. Upon reading the description this appeared into my head, then I started drawing it and somehow it got worse, and I just had to exorcise it.
I still wanted to tweak the colors a ...
worse, and I just had to exorcise it.

I still wanted to tweak the colors a bit but I was doing this on Adobe Flash, which is acting extremely unstable for some reason and threatening to corrupt the entire file (I barely managed to export this image, and it still came out harmed, as visible in larger versions, if you look at the knife glint and the eye.)]]>
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349781#Comment_3497812013-03-09T16:03:38-06:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00dnewlinghttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558
@Andre Navarro: never mind, it still looks impressive. Hope you get your Adobe sorted out.
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349783#Comment_3497832013-03-09T16:47:16-06:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00Clone Artisthttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6712
Ha! It liiiives! I totally missed R/R was back. Here's my contribution :)
Sadly i'm a bit busy so no coloring this time.
Sadly i'm a bit busy so no coloring this time.

Thanks for Magnulus for the photo reference!]]>
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@Paul Sizer: Glad you could make it to R&R this time. By the way, how did you do that orangey spotted finish in the background?
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Hey, that's Magnulus! Nice work, combining a R/R assignment with a Draw Each Other - way to kill two pieces in one swing, Paul.
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@kmcleod; I really like how it truthfully updated the premise. I would actually like to read about a science injected protest unit.
@Andre Navarro; That tagline kills. I like how every bit of his ...
@Andre Navarro; That tagline kills. I like how every bit of his design makes him a proper threat. It isn't dependent on the dead but the dead is a byproduct.

@Clone Artist; What a direction to go! Only a pinch of silly.

@Paul Sizer; I have to admit, I did flinch a little when I caught this was part of the Ghostbusters franchise. I'm just a tad lost why there isn't any element of the franchise within the poster. It is a very fun depiction of Magnulus though.]]>
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@Paul Sizer; I have to admit, I did flinch a little when I caught this was part of the Ghostbusters franchise. I'm just a tad lost why there isn't any element of the franchise within the poster. It ...
@Paul Sizer; I have to admit, I did flinch a little when I caught this was part of the Ghostbusters franchise. I'm just a tad lost why there isn't any element of the franchise within the poster. It is a very fun depiction of Magnulus though.

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, WE DON'T NEED CAPITALIST GHOST PEEKING OUT OF CIRCLE WITH LINE TO SELL OUR MOVIES!

Actually Ivan, we do, so I edited it and did some small tweaks!]]>
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@ Clone Artist: "Ecotplasm"?
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By the way, how did you do that orangey spotted finish in the background?
The dot pattern is a halftone of Magnulus' face that I just put in the background. I took his color face, converted it to ...
By the way, how did you do that orangey spotted finish in the background?The dot pattern is a halftone of Magnulus' face that I just put in the background. I took his color face, converted it to greyscale, then to a bitmap, using a halftone screen conversion, then changed it back to RGB and filled it with orange. All clear as mud? : )]]>
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@dnewling AAARGH! How did i miss that?
@jackcrowder silly is my middle name :)
@jackcrowder silly is my middle name :)]]>
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@ clone artist: oh well, they were Russians. They're bound to make a few mistakes with English.
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@clone artist- yours totally looks like a sergio aragones cartoon. I love it
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@ dnewling: This is what happens when you ink late at night. I was so tired that I noticed mistake next morning. Then again, "Ecotplasam" does have some nice ring to it.
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REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349899#Comment_3498992013-03-13T03:38:15-05:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00kmcleodhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=191
Cool recipe and book cover.
"1 fresh date for the Rapture"--are you talking about the fruit?
"1 fresh date for the Rapture"--are you talking about the fruit?]]>
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@kmcleod; I hope he is. I love that detail.
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@kmcleod: thanks for the feedback. "1 fresh date" is a pun - the fruit and calendar versions.
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349929#Comment_3499292013-03-13T17:55:59-05:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00Paul Sizerhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=44
VERY nice, Kosmograd! Me like!
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349935#Comment_3499352013-03-14T03:29:49-05:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00kmcleodhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=191
@dnewling--My first thought was of a female companion to take along.
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@kmcleod: we can have a lot of fun with "1 fresh date".
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@Kosmograd; Wonderful design.
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349991#Comment_3499912013-03-14T19:18:08-05:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00Andre Navarrohttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1561
@dnewling, @kmcleod, @jackcrowder - Thank you!
I love how Sizer used the hammer and sickle symbol on the Ghostbusters logo (as usual from Sizer, great design in general). And Kosmograd, that is ...
I love how Sizer used the hammer and sickle symbol on the Ghostbusters logo (as usual from Sizer, great design in general). And Kosmograd, that is gorgeous.]]>
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Heading towards closing time soon. I wonder what else will turn up?
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350030#Comment_3500302013-03-15T15:40:40-05:002013-03-15T16:22:23-05:00Berserkerhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=41
Got this about as far as it wanted to go. I probably should have stopped at the pencils. And maybe thrown in something, I dunno, Soviet-ish? Anyway...
Also, it occurs to me far too late that ...

Also, it occurs to me far too late that all I've done is put hair on Rasputin from Mignola's Hellboy. I don't know why, but it's been forever since I've done a R/R that I wasn't terribly disappointed in - the idea is there, but my execution of the idea always feels horribly flat and unappealing to me.]]>
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@Berserker; I don't think you've failed at any juncture in this. It speaks the concept. As far as story boarding, there's a lot of vital successes across it. I really love how you worked in the ...
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@jackcrowder: Thanks very much.
It does certainly paint the picture, I won't argue that. If it has any REAL flaw, it's just that it's not nearly as dynamic as it could have been - I can see how I ...
It does certainly paint the picture, I won't argue that. If it has any REAL flaw, it's just that it's not nearly as dynamic as it could have been - I can see how I could have made it more iconic, AND saved myself a LOT of work/anguish as far as all that detail goes while still conveying as much idea as this does.

Honestly I think I'm just soured on it because I'm still too close to it.

Everyone is doing great stuff, by the way. Hoping to see a lot more submissions from my fellow Whitechapel folk pour in tonight and tomorrow.]]>
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My effort, in the style of Soviet Propaganda posters from the nineteenth century.

My effort, in the style of Soviet Propaganda posters from the nineteenth century.]]>
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@Berserker: if Rasputin (or Ivan the Terrible?) came back in the future, he could well be looking like that.
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350064#Comment_3500642013-03-16T05:02:38-05:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00Kosmogradhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9722
"Hasn't the time come for pure intellect to leave its cocoon, the heavy ignorant human mass that stops it from realising its ideal being?"
The character Bakterev in Pavel Perov's Brastvo ...
The character Bakterev in Pavel Perov's Brastvo Viia (The Brotherhood of Viy) is a thinly disguised caricature of Vladimir Bekhterev, the renown Russian neurologist and father of objective psychology, working at the same time and in the same field as Ivan Pavlov, with whom he had an intense rivalry on the subject of conditioned reflexes.

Bekhterev was also something of a mystic, with a belief in psychic energy and telepathy, even after the revolution he was exploring the idea of collective hallucinations and community wide mutual suggestion.

Perov's anti-semitic novel published in Berlin in 1925 hams Bekhterev up into the mad-scientist Bakterev, as a collaborator with the Jews who brought about the Bolshevik Revolution (a common idea, one that was taken and run with by the National Socialists in Germany, though in fact only about 7% of the Bolshevik party were Jewish, including Trotsky amongst others). At the end of the book, Bakterev rebels and shouts at this Jewish conspirators: " What I had to do in the name of science, you do in the name of power". His laboratory explodes and humanity is saved.

For my interpretation I characterised Bakterev as a hero of the October revolution, harnessing the power of the atom to reanimate human souls and place them into half-human half-robot-spiders mortomats. Then it's a case of adding a mix of Soviet and Constructivist imagery, including Vostok rockets and a land-hover Battleship Potemkin. All great fun.

Some great work here everyone.]]>
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350107#Comment_3501072013-03-16T20:40:25-05:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00Herr Husseinhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9149
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REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350108#Comment_3501082013-03-16T22:23:07-05:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00Paul Sizerhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=44
Nice finish line entries, all!
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350119#Comment_3501192013-03-17T09:50:26-05:002013-03-17T09:56:57-05:00Clarkthehomunculushttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4700
Sorry for the quality, no scanner so I had to rely on my camera. When I think of Russian tech, my guitarist brain screams TUUUUBES!!!! Also: I HAD to go with the Rasputin-ish beard. My girlfriend ...
Sorry for the quality, no scanner so I had to rely on my camera. When I think of Russian tech, my guitarist brain screams TUUUUBES!!!! Also: I HAD to go with the Rasputin-ish beard. My girlfriend says it has a Dr.Wily/Robotnik vibe.]]>
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350124#Comment_3501242013-03-17T11:36:29-05:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00JamesFickbohmhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10953
new guy here, I know I used the clone tool too much when my wife commented "Why do all those guys look alike"... to which I replied "Er... cause they're clones see?"
This was a ...

new guy here, I know I used the clone tool too much when my wife commented "Why do all those guys look alike"... to which I replied "Er... cause they're clones see?"

This was a brutal piece to do on a limited time frame and I'm still not quite happy with it. If I had more time I'd finish the tubing (for now, just use the power of imagination) that was supposed to link the soul tanks and the mortomat gestation tanks, and possibly add more unique elements to the "guys" as my wife calls them.]]>
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350130#Comment_3501302013-03-17T13:14:34-05:002013-03-17T13:17:43-05:00dnewlinghttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558
@James Fickbohm: never mind, it still looks great. Welcome aboard!
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350132#Comment_3501322013-03-17T13:43:33-05:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00Jack Crowderhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6537
Love all that came in at the end!
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350136#Comment_3501362013-03-17T16:24:45-05:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00Berserkerhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=41
@jamesFickbohm - Not to worry; I think you win for your tag-line alone.
REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350154#Comment_3501542013-03-18T02:27:15-05:002015-03-31T17:17:22-05:00Horrible Warning Sihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1223
Aaaand we're out. Great work, folks.
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